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Anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, founder of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), speaks to reporters at the “Rally for the American Dream-Equal Education Rights for All,” ahead of the start of the trial in a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.,
Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits — many of which, according to a federal court in Maryland, appear to follow the same pattern. The defendants are typically small hotels, and Laufer accuses them of failing to comply with a federal regulation requiring that they disclose on their websites whether their rooms are […]
Georgia renames square after first black Civil War nurse BBC Source link
Birmingham civil rights icons share local history with Black journalists: ‘For the joy of us’ AL.com Source link
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida’s governor. But four years later, as DeSantis eyes the presidency, their hope that the Republican would be an ally on racial justice has long faded. Instead, African American […]
A suburban Detroit police officer who punched a 19-year-old Black man in the face and slammed his head to the ground is now facing a federal civil rights crime July 10, 2023, 12:45 PM ET • 2 min read WARREN, Mich. — A suburban Detroit police officer who punched a young Black man in the […]
The new front in America’s civil rights struggle is forming on familiar battlegrounds in Alabama’s Black Belt, and this time the legal fight is not over the right to vote, to attend desegregated classrooms or to survive in overcrowded prisons. This time, the federal government has raised a difficult question and threatened Alabama with costly […]
For decades, America has been forced to confront its history of racism and discrimination toward Black Americans. As recent events demonstrate, we continue to see evidence of police violence against unarmed Black people, attempts to suppress Black voting power, and efforts to threaten the already slow progress to equity and racial justice in crucial areas […]
Jacksonville community activist and Northside Coalition leader Benjamin Frazier has died at 73, his family confirmed. His daughter, Kelly Frazier, says he was surrounded by family and close friends as he courageously ended his nine-month battle with cancer at 9 p.m. Saturday at Shands Hospital in Jacksonville.
The moral dimension of Humphrey’s education about fascism deepened in a two-semester course drily entitled Sociology 211-212, Seminar in Social Theory, and taught by the recently arrived Dr. Rudolf Heberle, an exile by choice from the German Reich. During the summer of 1932, as a lecturer at the University of Kiel, Hebrle traversed the German […]